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• Common Sense and the CMAs Campaign for the Partial Privatization of Health Delivery

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:11 pm

  Tags: Privatization, Cma, Public Health Care

  to allow the part-privatization of health delivery services. To be fair, a lot of health delivery services in Canada are actually private. For instance, much like in the UK, for some bizarre reason dental care isn't part of 'free at the point of delivery' care that public health care systems usually take pride in. Pride one should

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• Municipal Bond Credit Spreads Starting to Widen

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Mortgage News, Mortgage Video, Mortgage Bond Market, Mortgage News, Municipal, Widen, Starting, Spreads, Mousseau, Privatization, Cumberland, Bond

  Watch for States to Consider Privatization Mortgage Bond Market, mortgage news, Mortgage Video ---Related Articles at Consumer Mortgage Reports:Bank of America Model Portfolio ChangesBear Stearns Hedge Funds Had Been Worth $1.5 billion, Now = NothingLBO Debt Alarms Ringing65% Of Subprime Mortgage Debt Didn't Meet Rating StandardsMortgage Bond

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• Parker County Is Making A Mistake

  Published: August 15, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Privatization, Parker County, County Jails

  Parker county commissioners voted on Monday to let a private company take over the operation of their county jail. They then awarded the contract to the second largest prison management company in the country -- CiviGenics.Commissioners said it cost them $56 dollars a day per prisoner to currently run the county jail. They have contracted to pay

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• Japan Post Privatized Today

  Published: October 1, 2007, 5:14 am

  Tags: Doing Business In Japan, Insurance, Investment, Japan Post, Privatization, Savings, Sumo

  Japan Post became the world's largest commercial bank today with 349.82 tillion yen ($3.03 trillion) in assets.The move is expected to bring more competition to Japan's banking sector.Japan Post has more than 400 million accounts. (Japan has only 120 million people.)Japan Post also has 24,500 offices nationwide with sales agents for

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• US Soldiers Have a New Enemy: Mercenaries Paid With Your Tax Dollars

  Published: October 12, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Blackwater, Mercenaries, Iraq, Military, Privatization

  Blackwater mercenaries are supposedly protecting Americans.  Then why are they pulling guns on American soldiers and holding our soldiers hostage? The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed

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• Bush Authoritarianism: Blackwater+Amway=GOP, Pt. 2

  Published: October 14, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: Bush Administration, Authoritarianism, Blackwater, Mercenaries, Privatization, Iraq

  of describing the radical privatization of the public sector at the heart of what for a lack of a better term I’m calling Bush authoritarianism.  I’ve only begun reading Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (reviewed here by SusanG).  From my preliminary reading, I think Klein lays out

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• Los Angeles/Oakland Reflections: Privatization of Urban Public Space

  Published: October 19, 2007, 1:07 am

  Tags: Berkeley, Community, East Bay, Oakland, Politics, Urban Planning, Walking, City Of Quartz, City Walk, Los Angeles, Mike Davis, Privatization, Public Space, Universal City

  My trip to LA last week made me reflect a lot on the differences of urban planning and living in Los Angeles and Oakland. Part of my thoughts reflect on my experience growing up in LA, and other thoughts might be influenced by a book I’m in the middle of reading, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis. So I

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• Support Public Radio

  Published: October 19, 2007, 8:01 pm

  Tags: Privatization, Radio, Ckua, Public Broadcasting, Media, Cjsr

  CJSR is winding up its Fund Drive as CKUA launches there's. And Both give you TAX Receipts for your $$$$$$$. And they both offer you swag and prizes over and above that!! And as an added incentive both the Alberta and Federal governments will top up them donations. So support YOUR radio. Public Radio for the People. You can listen to both

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• There Isn't A Day Goes By....

  Published: October 20, 2007, 5:23 am

  Tags: Privatization, Jeremy Scahill, Hillary Clinton, Democracy, War Profiteering, Mercenaries, New Orleans, Us Politics, Bill Moyers, Blackwater, Katrina, Bush Administration, Petitions

  aggressive supporter of the privatization of the war machine. Bill Clinton used mercenary forces in the Balkans. Who do we think gave Dick Cheney's company all of those contracts during the Nineties? We talk about Halliburton. It was Clinton. It was the Clinton administration. And and, Blackwater may be a-- an extraordinary Republican company.

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• Bush Authoritarianism: Blackwater+Amway=GOP, Pt. 3

  Published: October 21, 2007, 9:33 pm

  Tags: Bush Administration, Authoritarianism, Blackwater, Mercenaries, Privatization, Amway, Devos, Van Andel

  taxpayers.  But often, privatization results in inferior good or services, higher costs to taxpayers, and diminished accountability to the government and the public.   An extreme version of privatization has accelerated during the Bush administration: the privatization of warfare.  Privatizing war is at the cutting edge of Bush

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• State Dept: "We Won't Get Rid of Blackwater, Because We Can't"

  Published: October 24, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Blackwater, State Department, Mercenaries, Iraq, Privatization

  about recently, the radical privatization of government.  We’re paying for-profit entities to do something the government should be doing.  [And Spencer Ackerman at TPM Muckraker points out that in the past the military did protect diplomats in war zones.] But think about the claim that the government can’t field

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• The Shock Doctrine

  Published: October 24, 2007, 7:06 pm

  Tags: Crime, Culture, Blackwater, Disaster Capitalism, Halliburton, Hurricane Katrina, Privatization, September 11, Southeast Asia, The Shock Doctrine, War On Terror, Doctrine, Shock, Klein, Naomi, Capitalism, Disaster, Rise, Book

  of Free Market Economics and Privatization upon countries, inlcuding our own, during times of shock such as “natural” disasters, war and terrorist attacks. From her web site: At the most chaotic juncture

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• Contracting Out Harpers War

  Published: October 28, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Privatization, Contracting Out, Mercenaries, Warlords, Afghanistan, Blackwater, Contractors, War Profiteer

  use of contracting out and privatization of military operations for Harpers War. Not only is Tim Horton's a private contractor working at taxpayer expense in Kandahar so is SNC Lavalin.It is Canada's version of Bechtel and Halliburton. And like them it too has been rocked by scandals.But unlike them it is also a war-profiteer making weapons

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• Back door privatization of democracy (and FOX loves it!)

  Published: November 1, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Fox News, 2008 Elections, Privatization, Debate, Copyright, Blogging

  Way back in the stone age (i.e., May), I wrote about how the TV networks were trying to keep a firm grip on their "ownership" of the footage from presidential campaign debates they hosted on "their" air, and how bloggers and new media types were trying to free that up so that, you know, Americans could kind of maybe see and talk about some of it

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• Royalties Pay For Jobs

  Published: November 6, 2007, 7:18 am

  Tags: Ralph Klein, Public Sector, Privatization, Contracting Out, Nurses, Oil Workers, Neo Cons

  shareholders, P3, privatization, public-private-partnerships, Canada, Government, scandal, Ottawahealth care, medicare, Canada, Conservatives, politics, health, superbug, Vegreville, Stelmach, Alberta,Alberta Royalty Review,Alberta Cabinet, CAPP, Ed Stelmach,Big Oil,oil royalties, PC, Calgary, Party of Calgary, politics, NEP,

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